Swanlake

[LARSSON at VAX1.Mankato.MSUS.EDU]

Alan Westrope ponders:
"I've never understood the Swanlake reference, though, and it always struck
me as uncharacteristically heavy-handed in comparison to the names of the
other characters.  Any ballet _aficionados_ -- or performing arts librarians
:-) -- care to explicate?"


1) it's a nice name; 2) it might have analogies to the ballet, which is about
a princess torn away from her true love by an evil magician.  If Pointsman
is the evil magician, then it might fit.

There 's also the notion that the woman turns into a swan (or vice-versa) on
a provisional basis.  Jessica's passion for Roger will (SPOILER ALERT!!)


by subsumed by her "common sense" as she goes eventually back to Jeremy/Beaver.

Don Larsson, Mankato State U (MN)